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Accused madam Ghislaine Maxwell once directed a room of underage girls to "kiss, dance and touch one another in a sexual way" for late pedophile boss Jeffrey Epstein, according to newly released co......

Masahiro Tanaka's time with the Yankees officially appears over. The Rakuten Eagles, the Japanese team Tanaka starred with before coming to The Bronx in 2014, announced his signing on Twitter. The terms of the deal are unknown. "WELCOME HOME our H...

Masahiro Tanaka's time with the Yankees officially appears over. The Rakuten Eagles, the Japanese team Tanaka starred with before coming to The Bronx in 2014, announced his signing on Twitter......

Elephants in snow? When pigs fly! Watch as the pachyderms at Reid Park Zoo frolic as rare flurries land in Tucson, Arizona. While many zoo animals hid from the cold, baby elephant Penzi and her old......

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of a Pakistani man convicted and later acquitted in the gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. The court also dismissed an appeal of Ahmad Saeed Omar S...

The hit show "Bridgerton" is officially the most-watched Netflix original series in the company's history. The show, based on a book of the same name by Julia Quinn, surpassed even the streaming service's own rosy projections in its first ...

A California X-ray technician died earlier this month, just four days after receiving his second dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, a report said. Tim Zook, 60, died at UC Irvine Medical Center on Jan. 9 after first falling ill at South Coast Global M...

Three days after losing the NFC Championship, the Green Bay Packers reportedly made a coaching move Wednesday, firing special teams coordinator Shawn Mennenga. Multiple media outlets reported the transaction. Mennenga, 50, joined the Packers before the st...

SALT LAKE CITY — Playing without leading scorer Donovan Mitchell didn't slow down the Utah Jazz. Utah never trailed in a 116-104 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night. The Jazz overwhelmed the Mavericks on both ends of the court o...

NEW ORLEANS — With Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram each having their highest-scoring games of the season, there was only so much Washington's Bradley Beal could do in response. Ingram and Williamson each scored 32 points and New Orleans beat ...

An Idaho woman went on a bizarre rant at a local city council meeting saying she had to wear a "freaking burka" so she could avoid wearing face masks while attending college classes on campus. A woman who identified herself as Katie Dugger voiced ...

The parents of an Austin doctor spoke out on Wednesday night after their son killed another physician and then turned the weapon on himself after a hostage situation at a Texas hospital on Tuesday night. "We don't understand our son's motives ...

A California man allegedly built pipe bombs and threatened to "go to war" against Democrats over former President Donald Trump's election loss, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Ian Benjamin Rogers, 43, was arrested on Jan. 15 as officers se...

PHILADELPHIA — Tobias Harris swished a jumper with 3 seconds left, ending the Lakers' 13-0 run and sending the Philadelphia 76ers to a 107-106 victory over Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope hit a 3-pointer with 1:05 left t...

Van Jones is controversial because he has the audacity to work with both Democrats, Republicans, or any party in power to make progress on prison reform. But if that doesn't bother you, perhaps his opinion on Michael Jackson and Prince will. Like the ...

The pandemic may be raging, but Hamptons real estate couldn't be healthier....

A nurse at an upstate New York hospital was fatally struck by a snowplow behind the medical center she worked at on Tuesday, according to police and a report. Kristen Stevenson, 33, was hit when she walked behind the plow as it was backing up outside Glen...

It's official: St. John's is on a winning streak. And, like last year's strong finish, it's getting there with its defense. Mike Anderson's pressuring, uptempo style appears to be improving by the game. Wednesday night, it was instrume...

The Texans are tapping David Culley to become their next head coach, according to reports, a surprising hire that will come with the challenge of repairing Houston's fractured relationship with fra......

It looks as if Joe Judge is making an addition to his Giants coaching staff, with the expected hiring of Jeremy Pruitt certainly an interesting development. Pruitt, 46, was fired for cause as the Tennessee head coach on Jan. 18, after a school-directed in...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked Wall Street on Wednesday for wanting to crack down on a Reddit message board that helped GameStop's shares soar. "Gotta admit it's really something ......

Three teens have been arrested in connection to a Denver house fire that killed five people — including two children — who recently immigrated from Senegal, police said Wednesday. The male suspects — a 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds &m...

SAN DIEGO — Jurickson Profar, who played five positions for San Diego last season, signed a $21 million, three-year contract Wednesday to remain with the Padres. Profar had been a free agent. He chose to return to San Diego, which improved significa...

Finally, the World Health Organization has sent investigators to Wuhan, China, ground zero for COVID-19, to begin the belated search for the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. Today they will emerge from 14 days of quarantine. They should go straight to...

When asked which Nets star faced the biggest threat to his team, Atlanta coach Lloyd Pierce said he was afraid of all of them. He was right to be scared. Brooklyn's Big 3 was dominant in leading the Nets to a come-from-behind 132-128 overtime win over...

These healthcare workers kept it cool. A medical team in Oregon jumped into action after getting stuck in a snowstorm with COVID-19 vaccine doses that were about to expire — and used the jabs, going car to car to inject other stranded drivers. The &...

The Mets are moving on from Steven Matz. The team sent the 29-year-old lefty to the Blue Jays on Wednesday night, receiving three yet-to-be-named prospects in return, The Post confirmed. The Mets reached a one-year, $5.2 million deal with Matz in early De...

The New York Times promoted its metro editor in a move that puts him in charge of the audio unit that recently returned a Peabody Award after its Caliphate podcast series was discredited. Cliff Levy, who was an associate managing editor, now becomes one o...

A New Jersey hospital has been accused of allowing wealthy donors, executives and their relatives to skip the COVID-19 vaccine line, according to a report. The Hunterdon Medical Center allegedly doled out shots to the privileged group at a time when only ...

Seton Hall was up 16. Just over 10 minutes remained. The game felt over. But Seton Hall never closed the door, and Creighton eventually pushed it open. Instead of a statement victory, the Pirates c......

ATLANTA — The Hammer made one last trip to the spot where he hit No. 715. After a nearly three-hour funeral service Wednesday that featured two former presidents, a long-time baseball commissioner and a civil rights icon, the hearse carrying Hank Aa...

The Biden administration on Wednesday paused US arms sales to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia — one of several moves to address Trump-era foreign policies. Secretary of State Tony B......

Michael Strahan has tested positive for the coronavirus and is under quarantine, according to reports on Wednesday. The "Good Morning America" co-host — who has been absent from the ABC show this week — began isolating Saturday after f...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was roasted for blaming COVID-19 deaths on "incompetent government" — without mentioning his own administration's controversial nursing-home policy that's been accused of leading to more than 8,700 senior deaths. Du...

An upstate New York county is threatening to require residents to quarantine if they may have been in contact with a COVID-19 patient or returned from certain restricted states, a report said. The potential enforcement in Chemung County was outlined in a ...

With a name like "Super Bowl," it better be fun. Right? Two of the NFL's most fun athletes will be on opposite sides Feb. 7 when the Buccaneers and Chiefs meet in Super Bowl 55. But how do Rob Gronkowski and Patrick Mahomes compare to their pe...

Rangers coach David Quinn used the dreaded "P" word — pressing. Defenseman Ryan Lindgren suggested an absence of confidence has permeated the locker room. Fellow blueliner Adam Fox admitted the Rangers are having a difficult time dealing wit...

On the day after the Jets' season ended, team CEO and chairman Christopher Johnson let everyone know what he thought of general manager Joe Douglas. "I really think that Joe is the GM we've been searching for," Johnson said on the day he a...

Belief around the NBA is increasing that Andre Drummond could get bought out in Cleveland. And if he does, he could be the perfect fit for the center-starved Nets. After The Post reported that Nets general manager Sean Marks was likely to keep one of his ...

"Chad Wheeler is someone completely different than my roommate and brother at SC, and today I had to come to terms with that," Steeler Zach Banner tweeted....

The notorious "WallStreetBets" Reddit forum that helped fuel the GameStop stock surge had its server banned from a messaging platform for "hate speech" on Wednesday. Discord, a communication tool similar to Slack, said it pulled a server a...

During the darkest moments of lockdown, people went wild shopping online to spark joy. But now, those same eager purchasers have regrets....

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday finally released detailed figures of nursing-home coronavirus vaccination rates amid criticism over the lack of information — revealing that only one in five workers ......

The "Reddit rally" continued full steam ahead on Wednesday as officials began to question whether they are dealing with a populist market insurrection or something more sinister. Shares GameS......

No one can say for sure, but as few as 12 percent of Manhattan office workers are physically at their desks. There are cities with somewhat higher rates of office return, but the work-from-home wave is buffeting the value of commercial real estate across ...

The most unlikely beauty influencer of 2020? That would be Sir Winston Churchill....

When Officer Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back last year, the media wasted no time establishing the standard narrative: another unarmed African American shot by racist police. In a CNN segment on Aug. 25, anchor Jake Tapper said, ...

Before and after Tuesday's game in Utah, guard Austin Rivers pointed out the Knicks are "fatigued.'' And he indicated it wasn't just physically, but mentally, too. Rivers, the most candid Knick, initially blamed it on a grueling road s...

A Virginia daycare operator has been accused of killing a 2-year-old girl she was babysitting last summer. Jessica Cherry was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder in the death of little Kaylee Thomas, who was found unresponsive the babysitter's N...

US Capitol police officers were "betrayed" by their bosses, who left rank-and-file cops poorly equipped to handle the storming of the Capitol building — and weren't told the violence was expected, the department's union chief said We...